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Sally Bourliakas

@sallybourliakas.bsky.social

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Mum, scientist, Sci-Fi reader Studio Ghibli fan☮️ 🐈 🪄 ! I’ve had #LongCovid for 4+years Covid is Airborne wear FFP2/3 masks! Air filtration needed in schools & workplaces now. #Teamclots #RejoinEU #FreePalestine

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · Nov 17

Sending love to my new Blue Skies friends

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 5d

#fullmoon

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 6d

I do think the media is giving too much attention to the possibility of Farage winning an election that's nearly four years away. I also think it's underplaying the extremely high possibility that, even if he does, he immediately drowns in the same mire that swallowed Starmer and Sunak before him

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6d

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

on.ft.com

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 6d

Shocked yesterday Major General Chapman
Ex Head of CT MOD
(when told #Manchester
“suspect was out on bail for #rape”)

“Being an Honest, a decent honest criminal, even for something as bad as rape,
is not the same as a terror attack.”
@skynewsrss.bsky.social
retraction/apology?
(18.35 Fri 3/8/25)

Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 6d

Sally Bourliakas
@Sa...•3h © •••
Replying to @BBCPolitics and @bbclaurak
Why not report on what HAPPENED POLITICALLY THIS WEEK
The GREEN PARTY CONFERENCE
Not what is about to happen
or the knife attack again!
-wall to wall coverage for days
We didn't need Penny Mordant, Ben Howchen & Kimi Bad Enough: conflating antisemitism & anti zionism AGAIN!

Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 7d

It was noticed!

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Sally Bourliakas 💙 on X: "@BBCPolitics @bbclaurak For all those who didn’t realise the Greens had a Conference this week their Leaders speech👇🏼 & If you had to talk to someone about a knife attack on a Manchester synagogue Surely @ZackPolanski Jewish & from Manchester was the guy to pick?! https://t.co/M5khF7inPf https://t.co/HepX6uxCHH" / X

@BBCPolitics @bbclaurak For all those who didn’t realise the Greens had a Conference this week their Leaders speech👇🏼 & If you had to talk to someone about a knife attack on a Manchester synagogue Surely @ZackPolanski Jewish & from Manchester was the guy to pick?! https://t.co/M5khF7inPf https://t.co/HepX6uxCHH

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

Bolder. Effective.And surging!

Come on @greenparty.org.uk team.

Let's go!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party is louder and more left wing than ever.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 7d

As far as we know, the BBC didn't officially refused to interview @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social during conference - but leaving out our Jewish party leader in the week a terrorist murdered and terrorised Jewish people in his own city feels like a very deliberate editorial call

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 11d

1/ Farage and Nathan Gill made their European Parliament speeches parroting almost exactly the same Russian propaganda talking points on the same day, September 16th, 2014.

Here's Farage's speech

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 7d

I’m going green 😊
#BackZack
#GoGreen

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

These are just our first steps.

Let's keep going.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 7d

😂
I joined #YourParty
Don’t blame me

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MixoftheWeek @jimmyjazz58.bsky.social · Sep 7

It's simple. The east marsh has been in the poorest wards in the country for nearly 50 years through the Wilson, Blair, Starmer years nothing has changed. So local voters stick 2 fingers up at labour

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · Mar 20

🧪 interview 2024 with Dr Rae Duncan
mListen to end for economic impact of #LongCovid
youtu.be/ZX_ql12aHGc?...

LONG COVID - INTERVIEW WITH CARDIOLOGIST DR. RAE DUNCAN - 27 mins.

YouTube video by Grant Wakefield

youtu.be

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Dr Ben King 🌍 @benking01.bsky.social · Aug 31

Back to work tomorrow

Resetting my daily #Visible_health #PacePoints to 25

My average towards the end of the Summer Term was around 16 PacePoints per day 👇

Over the Summer, I've used around half this, on average; i.e. 8 PacePoints per day 👇

Interested to see what happens 🤔

Visible Health pacepoints graph for each day

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Democrats @democrats.org · Aug 14

Gov. Gavin Newsom: We cannot stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district, all across this country. Blue states need to stand up. We need to be firm in our resolve.

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Katharina 🦋🍋🍀 @katha1970.bsky.social · Apr 2

To all those who have literally “lost” their life due to suffering from a debilitating chronic illness:

Here is a song I wrote for my family -

“Is this really life?”

Maybe it resonates with some of you, too.

Feel free to share with whoever it may do well 💚

youtu.be/KR2p9NlWrqI?...

Is this really life ? - a song for chronically ill and their loved ones (HD)

This song is dedicated to all those suffering from complex chronic illnesses like ME/CFS, Long Covid, chronic pain, chronic migraines, other forms of debilit...

youtu.be

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · Aug 13

& in UK 3.1M wouldn’t have #LongCovid

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Nhfthr @nhfthr.bsky.social · Aug 13

Short version: Less people would have died.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · Aug 13

The president has commodified the White House, turning it into the political HQ of the Trump Organisation and earning $3.4 billion in the process.

Farage, given his obsession with American politics, will surely follow Trump's lead.

📝 New Substack 👇

Trump’s Apprentice

Welcome to the commodified era of politics...

writesbright.substack.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Aug 13

Very revealing moment on Channel 5 earlier today.

Ann Widdecombe claimed people abuse disability benefits.

I asked several times for her evidence - she said she’d “heard it from people” when she was a minister.

My response? That right there is why our country is in a mess.

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · Aug 13

🧪 What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would’ve dropped rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared w/ 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay! t.co/RHkmSI1Zoq

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03976-0

t.co

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · Jul 30

@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social x.com/smartairuk/s...
We need these in every classroom and workplace!

SmartAirUK on X: "🏆 The Blast Mini was named the best classroom air purifier in the UK by @ThisHouseFresh & @SafeAirSchoolUK. Tested against 13 models, it stood out for strong performance, low noise & running costs, making it a top pick for classrooms. Read more: https://t.co/V0Rpe8atcS https://t.co/mQTy86272z" / X

🏆 The Blast Mini was named the best classroom air purifier in the UK by @ThisHouseFresh & @SafeAirSchoolUK. Tested against 13 models, it stood out for strong performance, low noise & running costs, making it a top pick for classrooms. Read more: https://t.co/V0Rpe8atcS https://t.co/mQTy86272z

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 27

a moral degenerate

CNN CHYRON: TRUMP ON GAZA AID, AS STARVATION CRISIS DEEPENS: "IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE AT LEAST A THANK YOU"

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Jul 25

New Atlas: 'Finally: A diagnostic test for chronic fatigue syndrome?'

'The team also says that its findings could have implications in treating those suffering from long COVID...'

newatlas.com/medical/diag...